Mark Hill: Tickertape

Frameworks assign parts of the drawing process environmentally, to make use of artefacts and knowledge-bases as a kind of creative prosthetic.

In the context of a framework, drawing is as an informational flow between mechanisms of exchange, translation and interpretation; it is distributed. The aim is to arrive at a systemic representation of the inevitability inherent within a framework’s overall physical, virtual and conceptual structure, through drawing.

Framework No.1 – Ticker Tape, is a partial response to Benjamin’s (The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction) observation that the aura of authenticity is diminished through successive reproduction, that makes the work of art a direct consequence of it; this does not apply in the sense of plurality of copies Vs single instance, but more in how reproduction can function as an integral part of an artwork’s uniqueness.